Hi reefers,
I’m Christophe from Paris and as a French guy my English is funny, so please accept my apologies if I’m not writing proper.
I’m reading the forum since a long time but I’ve never post anything.
This thread is about my small reef. I’m steel a beginner in reefing but I had loads of fresh tanks and terrariums. I started my reef 4 years ago.
Nothing special, basics species for fishes and corals, and trying to make the maintenance as easy as I can.
When I started my project, I put on the the paper those ideas: minimalist design - easy care maintenance - natural reef look. Steel the beginning I’m trying to follow these first wishes.
My philosophy is « I don’t have an aquarium, I have a reef ». It means, my tank is changing in terms of size and maintenance with the evolution of my piece of rocks and my fishes.
I start this reef with a 15 gal tank for the first 3 years with the easiest system I could do:
-light
-1 small pump for the flow
-heater
-and my hands
...that’s all. I was making 1/3 of water change a week feeding and done.
This system works of because I have easy maintenance species and also I have all my time to see my corals growing. If I had compare with peoples who are making it better in terms of supplementation (everyone basically
)I would be totally frustrated.
This is how the reef was looking in this small tank:
The tank changed 9 months ago to a 42 gal tank with a sump of 10 gal.
Technicals:
-2 Aqua-Illumination prime
-1 Tunze 8831 led for the algae refugium
-2 Jebao OW-10
-1 Coral Box Bubble Magus C7
-1 Coral Box WiFi dosing pumps 4 ch
-1 Ecotech Marine Vectra L1
-1 Tunze Nano-Stream 6015 in the sump (just to make a better flow on the maxspect ceramics)
-1 Smart ATO osmolation system
...ok...now it’s not as easy as the beginning, but this is steel basic compare to many systems.
I just start to use dosing pumps 3 weeks ago with the aquaforest balling products.
Actually, I’m changing weekly 2.5 gal of water and 5 gal monthly. Feeding some corals twice a week, and some daily cleaning and fish feeding.
Please don’t call the police tang, as I said before, the size of the tank will change with the grows of the fishes and the corals
Thanks for reading, I’m happy to share it with you, to respond to any interrogations and if you have some advice I will be grateful for it!
I’m Christophe from Paris and as a French guy my English is funny, so please accept my apologies if I’m not writing proper.
I’m reading the forum since a long time but I’ve never post anything.
This thread is about my small reef. I’m steel a beginner in reefing but I had loads of fresh tanks and terrariums. I started my reef 4 years ago.
Nothing special, basics species for fishes and corals, and trying to make the maintenance as easy as I can.
When I started my project, I put on the the paper those ideas: minimalist design - easy care maintenance - natural reef look. Steel the beginning I’m trying to follow these first wishes.
My philosophy is « I don’t have an aquarium, I have a reef ». It means, my tank is changing in terms of size and maintenance with the evolution of my piece of rocks and my fishes.
I start this reef with a 15 gal tank for the first 3 years with the easiest system I could do:
-light
-1 small pump for the flow
-heater
-and my hands
...that’s all. I was making 1/3 of water change a week feeding and done.
This system works of because I have easy maintenance species and also I have all my time to see my corals growing. If I had compare with peoples who are making it better in terms of supplementation (everyone basically
)I would be totally frustrated. This is how the reef was looking in this small tank:
The tank changed 9 months ago to a 42 gal tank with a sump of 10 gal.
Technicals:
-2 Aqua-Illumination prime
-1 Tunze 8831 led for the algae refugium
-2 Jebao OW-10
-1 Coral Box Bubble Magus C7
-1 Coral Box WiFi dosing pumps 4 ch
-1 Ecotech Marine Vectra L1
-1 Tunze Nano-Stream 6015 in the sump (just to make a better flow on the maxspect ceramics)
-1 Smart ATO osmolation system
...ok...now it’s not as easy as the beginning, but this is steel basic compare to many systems.
I just start to use dosing pumps 3 weeks ago with the aquaforest balling products.
Actually, I’m changing weekly 2.5 gal of water and 5 gal monthly. Feeding some corals twice a week, and some daily cleaning and fish feeding.
Please don’t call the police tang, as I said before, the size of the tank will change with the grows of the fishes and the corals
Thanks for reading, I’m happy to share it with you, to respond to any interrogations and if you have some advice I will be grateful for it!
